Syracuse fans will be keeping a close eye on Arizona's schedule to see if there is anyone up ahead that can defeat the Wildcats and give Syracuse a chance to claim the top spot if the Orange can keep winning.

Arizona gets Washington at home on Saturday after Thursday's visit from Washington State, then heads for UCLA on January 9.

Syracuse opens up ACC play with Miami at the Carrier Dome on Saturday. Tip time is 2:00 p.m.

Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim has been impressed with his team's start, but says things reset now that the Orange are entering ACC play.

"I think that we really have come through the first 13 games of the non-conference as well as you could ever hope for," Boeheim said after SU's win over Eastern Michigan on Tuesday.

"We had a lot of battles, a lot of tough games. We played some really good teams. It’s ironic that the one game that we could have lost was St. Francis. With a schedule like ours, that’s something you wouldn’t think would happen, the only game that at the end we could have lost. I think we put ourselves in the best position we could possibly put ourselves in.

Now we just start something all over again where we’re 0-0 and we need to focus on that."

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The Jamesville-Dewitt school district is surely rooting for Syracuse to finish undefeated. He was joking, but Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim said at a recent school board meeting that he would pay for the school's new turf field if his Orange went undefeated.

I'm sure J-D would like the chance to try to hold Boeheim to that anyway.